IOBC Working Group on Integrated Control in Field Vegetables

Meeting in Ljubljana (Slovenia)

3-7 October 2005

Provisional Programme

Sunday, 2 October, afternoon: Arrival

Monday, 3 October: Presentations

8:30-9:00 / Opening session (Dr. Rosemary Collier – convenor of the group, Prof. Dr. Franci Štampar – prodean of the Dept. of Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty, Dr. Stanislav Trdan – meeting organizer)
9:00 – 12:00 /

Session Integrated Pest Management

9:00-9:30 / Rosemary COLLIER: Thrips control on Allium crops
9:30-10:00 / Frans VAN DE STEENE: A strategy for a supervised control of Thrips tabaci Lind. in leek in Belgium
10:00-10:30 / Karen MARTENS, Nathalie PLOVIE: A warning system for cole crops and leek in Flanders: a practical approach
10:30-11:00 / Coffee break
11:00-11:30 / Gitta SIEKMANN: Exclusion fences against carrot and cabbage flies: A two-year study
11:30-12:00 / Robert BAUR, Reinhard EDER, Stefan RAUSCHER: Do novel approaches in Swede midge control keep their promise?
12:00-14:00 /

Lunch break

14:00-17:00 / Session Ecology of Pest Insects
14:00-14:30 /

Stan FINCH: Host-plant finding by insects

14:30-15:00 /

Ana AGUIAR, Anabela FERREIRA, Dalila MARTINS, Susana PAÚL: The life cycle of Delia in the turnip culture in the northwest of Portugal

15:00-15:30 / Brian R. FLOOD, Tracy L. FLOOD: Insect migration as impacted by weather patterns
15:30-16:00 /
Coffee break
16:00-16:30 /
Peter ESBJERG: Agrotis segetum in Denmark: first signs of global climate change
16:30-17:00 /
Eefje DEN BELDER, J. ELDERSON, G. SCHELLING, B. MEURS: The influence of landscape and farm management on pests in cabbage
17:30… /

Sightseeing of Ljubljana, guided tour, cca 2 hours* (dinner somewhere in the city)

Tuesday, 4 October: All-day excursion to Primorska region (vegetable and vine growing)

8:30 / Departure
10:00 / Visit to world famous Postojna cave in the middle of the karst underground
12:00 / Lunch (Tourist farm Hudičevec)
14:00 / Visit to some vegetable growing sites in Koper area (14:00 Purissima, 15:00 Zelenjak farm, 16:00 Trček farm - vegetable growers)
17:30 / Short visit to Piran (or Portorož)
18:30 / Visit to a wine cellar, wine tasting and dinner (tourist farm Mahnič, Dragonja)

Wednesday, 5 October: Presentations

8:15-9:15 / Session Trap Crops
8:15-8:45 /

David GEORGE: Selection of trap crop and companion plants for management of pest insects in field vegetables

8:45-9:15 /

Gitta SIEKMANN: Attractivity of the wild crucifer Barbarea vulgaris to cabbage pests in the laboratory and in the field: A »dead end« trap crop not only for diamond back moth?

9:15-10:15 / Session Predators and Parasitoids
9:15-9:45 / Dionyssios Perdikis, A. Giatropoulos, P. Labropoulos, D. Masselou, A. Fantinou, D. Lykouressis: The role of non-cultivated plants in the colonization of a tomato field by polyphagous mirid predators
9:45-10:15 / Stan FINCH: Pest insect control by predatory ground beetles – 40 years of doubt
10:15-10:45 / Coffee break
10:45-12:15 / Session Insecticidal Control
10:45-11:15 / Albert ESTER: Filmcoating the seed of carrot with insecticide to control carrot root fly
11:15-11:45 / Richard MEADOW: Natural insecticides for control of root flies in Brassicae
11:45-12:15 / Elisabeth H. KOSCHIER, Julia RIEFLER, K. SEDY: Bioactive plant compounds for control of Thrips tabaci
12:15-13:30 / Lunch break
13:30-14:30 / Session Insecticidal Control - continuation
13:30-14:00 / Ahmadreza Abbasifar, Mazaher Yousefi: Evaluation of resistance to the thrips Thrips tabaci Lindeman on six cultivars onion in Arak, Iran
14:00-14:30 / Stanislav Trdan, Dragan ŽNIDARČIČ: Searching for the optimal sustainable control method against Thrips tabaci on early white cabbage
14:30-15:00 / Session Monitoring Pest Populations
14:30-15:00 / József Takács, Péter Balogh, Miklós Nádasy: Quick forecasting of the Western Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte), a pest of sweet corn in Hungary
15:00-15:30 / Coffee break
15:30-16:30 / Session Disease and Weed Control
15:30-16:00 / Gabriella KAZINCZI, József HORVÁTH, A. TAKÁCS, Miklós NÁDASY, Erzsébet NÁDASY: Effect of herbicide (pendimethalin, Stomp) and virus infection on the photosynthetic activity of pepper
16:00-16:30 / Bodil JÖNSSON: New plant protection problems in Swedish field grown vegetables
16:30-17:00 / Presentations on new books
16:30-16:45 / Robert BAUR: New IOBC guidelines for Integrated Control in Field Vegetables
16:45-17:00 / Rick FOSTER, Brian R. FLOOD: Vegetable Insect Management – brief review of the book
17:30… / Free evening

Thursday, 6 October: All-day excursion to Štajerska region (wine growing)

8:00 / Departure
10:00 / Visit to Ptuj – the oldest Slovenian town (wine cellar, wine tasting, light meal)
12:00 / Visit to Ptuj - old part of the town with castle
14:00 / Visit to two vegetable growing farms in Ptuj surroundings (Vekoslav Kumer, Trgovišče, and Branko Bolcar, Spuhlja)
17:30 / Closing dinner, restaurant Zlati grič in the vicinity of Slovenske Konjice

Posters

Erzsébet NÁDASY, Donát SZáM, Zs. SÜMEGI: Problems and experiences of chemical weed control of green pea in Hungary

Péter Balogh, József Takács, Miklós Nádasy, Balázs Klem: Biology and spreading of Cotton Bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera Hbn.) in Hungary

Julia RIEFLER, Elisabeth H. KOSCHIER: Behavioural aspects in the host selection process of Thrips tabaci

Lea MILEVOJ, Franci CELAR, Karmica SKALIČ.: Laboratory study of the fungus Alternaria brassicicola (Schweinitz) Wiltshire from a turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa)

Andja Vučetić, Željko Tomanović, Olivera Petrović-Obradović: Possibilities of using aphid parasitoids in biological control of aphids on vegetables in Serbia

Dean Ban, Milan Oplanić, A. S. Ilak Peršurić, Bruno Novak: Analyses of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) production, comparing conventional, integrated and organic crop management

Milan Oplanić, Dean Ban, A. S. Ilak Peršurić: Economic analysis of various tomato production systems